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Topic: NYC papers 'calling-out' fake TV stories
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| EDitor in NJ | Posted – 2/21/2012 11:58:24 AM | show profile | email poster | flag this post (Even newspaper columnists are catching-on to our, cheap, fake "Breaking News" B***Sh**T hype: Below is from Tuesday's New York Daily News 2/21/12 **************************************** Phil Mushnick PRIME TIME In sixth grade the most obnoxious kids would holler, Made ya look! Made ya look! Today, all day, every day, one can turn to the local TV news to hear and see that game being played by adults, by professional, credentialed newsmen and newswomen. At noon on Feb. 8, WCBS-Ch. 2 News led with what the anchor identified as breaking news. And, because old, trustful news-watching habits die hard, he had my full attention. He next sent it to reporter Lou Young, who was in Middletown, NY, where a gunman had been shot and killed in a courthouse. But, gee, it didnt appear to be breaking news. There was tape shown of eyewitness accounts, and yellow crime-scene ribbon already surrounded the motorcycle on which the suspect had apparently arrived. And then, at the close of his report, Young looked down at his wristwatch, then spilled the beans: This breaking news had occurred, he said, three hours ago. Oh, so the breaking news had already broken three hours earlier. It was long over. But lots of news, these days, is dishonestly pitched as breaking. On Saturday morning, Feb. 11, WABC-Ch. 7s Eyewitness News led with its Storm Watch package, including two live remote reports, both pointing with great anticipation to the coming snowstorm. Snowstorm? What snowstorm? A couple of inches, at most, were expected, followed by temperatures warm enough to quickly wash it away. That night, on its 6 p.m. newscast, Ch. 7 again led with its Storm Watch. After Ch. 7 reported there wasnt much to report, co-anchor Sandra Bookman smiled at the camera and said, OK, lets be honest. The snow was a bust. Lets be honest? Too late! First, there wasnt supposed to be a snow storm, just a little snow, at worst. Things like that happen in February, ya know? Secondly, if the snow was a bust, why was it the lead story? On a New York City newscast there was nothing else worth emphasizing? But turn on any of our local newscasts, at any time. Theyre all loaded with Made ya look! The condition of televised news in the media capital of the world has become so corrupted and cheapened that the best training a newsroom shot-caller can procure is an apprenticeship in a three-card monte operation. |
| EDitor in NJ | Posted – 2/21/2012 12:28:48 PM | show profile | email poster | flag this post OOPS Sorry....Phil Mushnick's TV column on fake "Breaking News" stories on local (NYC) TV appears in THE NEW YORK POST....not, as I said-- in the New York Daily News. |
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